MANILA (Reuters) - Strong winds and giant waves, boosted by
a southwest monsoon, wiped out hundreds of shacks on stilts and
left thousands of people homeless in the southern Philippines,
local government officials said on Thursday.

Word of the Day

pawl

A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.